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HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Tens of thousands of children are born every year with brain damage as a result of pre-natal exposure to alcohol, yet most clinical commissioning groups are not providing…07 May 2019HANSARD Future International Trade OpportunitiesIn congratulating the hon. Member for North Warwickshire (Craig Tracey) on securing the debate, I call on the Minister to deal with the point made by the hon. Member for Dundee…01 May 2019HANSARD Future International Trade OpportunitiesThat is another debate. I will stick to the topic of international trade and future arrangements. As any business person knows, you look after existing relationships first and…01 May 2019HANSARDService Businesses: Overseas MarketsService exporters depend on an international workforce, but arbitrary immigration targets limit their ability to recruit the staff they need. Growing our market share in services…25 Apr 2019HANSARDWorkplace HarassmentWomen who work in the retail and hospitality sectors in the UK have little protection when they face workplace harassment, which is something that happens far too often. As last…25 Apr 2019HANSARDWorkplace Harassment6. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a duty on employers to prevent workplace harassment.25 Apr 2019HANSARDEngagementsQ9. It is complacent to claim that we are on target to meet our climate change obligations when emissions from air freight and the shipping of imports and exports are excluded…24 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am grateful to the Minister for that intervention, which tells us that we have not had the response from the Secretary of State. I am pleased that we got that on the record. The…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My hon. Friend is quite right to pursue that point further. I prepared a section of my speech on that, and I will pick up his point in detail when I reach it. I have identified…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hanson, given your formidable expertise and experience, which you demonstrated in response to the points of order. The…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019On a point of order, Mr Hanson. We appear to be missing a crucial piece of information in the guise of this letter from the Secretary of State, which would resolve this discussion…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That is interesting. I read the regulations and the explanatory memorandum in some detail several times. Although the Minister is right that the regulations will apply in the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I have no way of knowing whether there has been a formal response, because the Government have not published anything.10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019On a point of order, Mr Hanson. I am sure that had anything disorderly taken place or the suggestion the Minister just raised been made, you would have intervened and stopped it.…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I will repeat part of the quote that I read out from the Welsh Counsel General about clauses 7 to 9 of the withdrawal Act. It relates to the inter- governmental agreement that the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019On a point of order, Mr Hanson. In the light of the Minister’s inability to deal with the point about the response from the Welsh Government to the Secretary of State, is there a…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Oh, the hon. Gentleman does not have a legal background either—never mind. We are in danger of being diverted again. In paragraph 6.10 of the explanatory memorandum, the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That is absolutely the right question to ask. I will just make clear exactly what questions we want answered by quoting from the letter published on the website as evidence to the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Absolutely, Mr Hanson. I quoted paragraph 2.8 of the explanatory memorandum for the State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which refers to support for postal services and rural…10 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Fortunately, Mr Hanson, you have answered my hon. Friend’s question very well. I think his point was that we are really not doing this justice, and are not in a position to do so.…10 Apr 2019